Generalized on-shell renormalization of heavy quarks

A generalized on-shell (GOS) renormalization scheme of QCD is developed to evaluate the renormalization of heavy quark wave functions and currents. All large logarithms arising from the physical range of quark masses and momentum transferq ² can be absorbed into wave function and vertex renormalization. Our results are more general than those of the heavy quark effective theory and agree with the latter only at zero recoil. The proposed GOS scheme is very suitable for the /m _Q expansion. As an application we discuss the renormalization of the flavour changing currentsb-c, t-b andt-c.Supported by Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie (BMFT)